The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively.

Many ironclads were built to make use of the ram or the torpedo, which a number of naval designers considered the crucial weapons of naval combat.

The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.

Current weapons were either based on jeeps or small tracked vehicles and the airborne troops thus always fought at a distinct disadvantage in terms of heavy weapons.

Although the early German Panzerjäger carried more effective weapons than the tanks on which they were based, they were generally lacking in protection for the crew, having thinly armored open-topped superstructures.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of military armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles.

As early as 1966, resolutions were introduced to the United Nations charging that the U. S. was violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which regulated the use of chemical and biological weapons.

Most commonly the carvings of ivory and wood were for the purpose of hunting weapons.

An ASROC missile could hypothetically carry a 10 kiloton W44 nuclear warhead, although the W44-armed nuclear weapons were retired by 1989, and all types of nuclear depth bombs were removed from deployment.

At the start of the Cold War, bombers were the only means to take nuclear weapons to enemy targets, and had the role of deterrence.

Tools, weapons, armor, and various building materials, like decorative tiles, made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper (" Chalcolithic ") predecessors.

But the sources suggest the Batavi were able to swim across rivers actually wearing full armour and weapons.

The most recognisable type of boomerang is the returning boomerang ; while non-returning boomerangs, throwing sticks ( or shaunies ) were used as weapons, returning boomerangs have been used primarily for leisure or recreation.

The biological and chemical weapons developed during that period were tested at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

Countries began to develop weapons which were much more effective, and much less likely to cause infection to the wrong party.

As the 1970s passed, global efforts to prevent the development of biological weapons and their use were widespread.

It was here that most losses were inflicted upon the enemy, primarily through the capture of prisoners and weapons.

Among the evidence presented to the tribunal were the results of paraffin tests, used to identify lead residues from firing weapons, and that nail bombs had been found on the body of one of those killed.

Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, initially controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.

The latter were promised amnesty, allowed to retain their weapons.

With these keen `` eyes '' and small nuclear weapons delivered with accuracy, military forces can be directly attacked with minimum damage to urban areas.

The US announced that it would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the Soviets dismantle the missile bases already under construction or completed in Cuba and remove all offensive weapons.

Unconfirmed reports suggest Russian military forces used ground delivered thermobaric weapons in the Battle for Grozny ( first and second Chechen wars ) to attack dug in Chechen fighters.

The B-29 aircraft that delivered the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not lose power due to damage to their electrical or electronic systems.

Since these weapons delivered lighter munitions ( thus delivering less energy on impact ) it is a widely held opinion that they were used more as an anti-personnel role, or to destroy lighter structures.

The first weapons of this kind to be delivered were the tactical FROG-series, capable of carrying either a conventional or WMD warhead for battlefield usage.

In the field the only immediate indications of its use may be the white smoke emanating from delivered weapons.

Operation WASHTUB proved unnecessary ; in May 1954, surplus Wehrmacht weapons, from Czechoslovakia, secretly arrived to Guatemala, delivered by the Swedish ship Alfhem.

Russian Soviet air supply continued, bringing in heavy weapons to supplement the light arms previously delivered.

Arthur C. Clarke envisaged particle beam weapons in his 1955 novel Earthlight, in which energy would be delivered by high-velocity beams of matter.

The gold is ostensibly being delivered to a troop of American soldiers in exchange for weapons, but following the Mexican troops out of town, the Stranger witnesses them being massacred by members of the Rojo gang, dressed in American uniforms and led by Ramon Rojo.

This envoy stayed for two days in the Spanish camp, studied the weapons and horses, and delivered an invitation to the Spanish to visit Cajamarca to meet Atahualpa.

Meanwhile, G ' Kar and Ivanova walk through a storage bay, where G ' Kar explains that the devices around them were delivered by the Gaim ambassador, and that each of the weapons can deliver a blast of between five and six hundred megatons, and they are very difficult to detect.

Initially to be created were 16 infantry divisions, three cavalry brigades and one motorized brigade, to be equipped with captured weapons or with arms and supplies delivered by the Allies.

Suppressive fire can be delivered by any weapon or group of weapons capable of delivering the required intensity for the required period of suppression.

" Suppressive fire can also be delivered using other weapons such as assault rifles, but the volume and intensity of fire generated is less than that of machine guns, as the rifles overheat more rapidly and require reloading more often ".

Thrust escaped and delivered the weapons to Sideways and his master, Unicron, presently disguised as Cybertron's moon.

After the boss of the stage is destroyed or the packages are delivered the player moves on to a rear-facing 2D screen where he must destroy the enemy ships to gain credits to buy weapons in the space station on the end of the levels.

In 1980s and 1990s, specimens of deadly bacteria and viruses stolen from Western laboratories were delivered by Aeroflot to support Russian program of biological weapons.

The BRAVO-ROMEO-DELTA targeting strategy continued, with tactical weapons to be used in Europe while SAC delivered strategic weapons to the USSR.

The PAF also operates some 63 F-16 fighters, the first 32 of which were delivered in the 1980s and believed by some to have been modified for nuclear weapons delivery.

In exchange Germany delivered weapons to the Finns.